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Online Degrees and Distance Learning

for working professionals as long as 15 years ago. Today, students are not required to maintain such geographical proximity...

Western Civilizations's Pivotal Event

to a calling more suited to their socioeconomic status. In other words, if one were poor, one would be placed on the vocational tr...

'The Bridegroom' by Ha Jin

concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...

Going Back to College, its Benefits and Challenges

What Will It Take? An adult returning to college is certain to have a very different set of circumstances to deal with than thos...

Technology Improvement and the Department of Youth and Family Services

at least better organize the department (although issues of inexperienced social workers and lack of checks and balances is anothe...

Punishment and Prisons in England During the Victorian Age in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

accountable. In one of his most memorable works, Great Expectations (1860-1861), Dickens tackled the social hypocrisy that was ru...

Communicating for Business in China

the arms across the chest (closing to the ideas being presented. One conducting a meeting can regulate the flow of conversa...

Communication and Perception

from the West in so many respects, including the manner in which different cultures go about conducting business. Following are e...

Moral Decision Making and Business Ethics

an ethical lapse because this is generally refers to making decisions that are "morally wrong" (Ethics, no date). To ask someone t...

Living on One's Own is Better

virtue of an extensive library and the contributions of fellow students. Not only is the type of school all-important to ones aca...

Comparing Emily Dickinson and Anne Bradstreet

of this in the following lines which use that imagery in the comparisons: "Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,/ Who afte...

S. Foss's Inviting Transformation, Presentational Speaking for a Changing World and Public Speaking

those principles and put them into action and practice presentational speaking. Nevertheless, the first part of my task is accompl...

Overview of the PCS Industry

of 2003 while wired telecom service declined by four percent (TNS Telecoms, 2003). In 2001, wireless customers exceeded resident...

Heart Transplantation and Types of Ventricular Assist Devices

ventricle, or both; it consists of one or two implanted or extracorporeal pumps with afferent and efferent conduits attached so as...

Nursing Home Admissions' Perception versus Reality

to a nursing facility, it should also be understood that each situation is unique. When both the family members and the staff of t...

An Analysis of The Matrix

not-so-classic sci-fi approach in the storytelling process allows the audience to wonder along with the main character, Neo, if it...

Justice and Law According to William Lloyd Garrison, Thomas Aquinas, and Oliver Wendell Holmes

actions would have been sanctioned by law forty years ago, the consensus of society at today is that this sort of discrimination i...

A Woman Soldier's Own Story: The Autobiography of Xie Bingying A Critique

dominated every aspect of their lives. As a child Xie was not even supposed to play outside with members of the opposite sex, not...

Sports Fans and Advanced Sports Technology's Negative Effects

Americas favorite pastime seen better days. The lure of money is the single most important lure that has allowed advanced t...

A Case Study of Ethical Conflicts

and control represents the very essence of a capable social worker. According to Harry Specht and Mark E. Courtneys Unfaithful An...

Critique of Going Beyond Motivation to the Power of Volition

happens when the individual loses the vision and the project runs out of steam. The authors relay the story of one IBM subsidiary...

1840s' America and the Transition to a Regime Pro Party and Pro Democratic

place within society. Hamilton effectively summed up the Federalist viewpoint when he remarked that the countrys laws could not b...

Effects of Pregnant Woman Using Heroin

the world suffering. A recent law was signed by President Bush that rendered the fetus an independent human being and was someth...

Work of John Dewey and Its Importance

be verified (Dewey, 1938). Pragmatism, then, is the application of scientific methods to areas commonly referred to as ideals and ...

Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Patons

And so, through the words of Alan Paton the reader is transported into the world of apartheid, and the grim realities that accompa...

A Comparison of the Reuters Group PLC and Bloomberg L.P.

in London by Paul Julius Reuter (Reuters, About, 2004). Reuter used the new invention, the Calais-Dover cable, to transmit stock q...

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Definitions

might be termed the "straightforward" meanings of the words, he frequently adds a commentary of his own which sometimes refers to ...

PC Industry and the Dominant Threat Posed by Microsoft

among his competitors who cry foul to such underhanded strategy. The antitrust lawsuit slapped on the Microsoft Chairman and Chie...

What it Means to Be Creative

be very discouraging and lead many people to give up on a dream of being an artist or a writer or anything else that calls for the...

Virtue in Henry V and Brave New World

are eventually reintroduced to the "regular" world and everyone finds out that John was born of Linda (his mother) and they become...